On Dec  6 15:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > No offense, but you didn't understand what I mean, it seems.
> 
> I did, I think -- but read my request again.
> 
> > Don't call cygpath.  Just use /proc/cygdrive directly.  It's that
> > simple.  While the cygdrive prefix changes, /proc/cygdrive will
> > *never* change.  E.g.
> 
> I need cygpath to get the system directory (hint: it need not be in
> C:\Windows\System32) and cygpath delivers that directory with the
> cygdrive prefix and not /proc/cygpath prepended.  I wouldn't mind if all
> those special directories would also be available via /proc/<whatever>,
> which means I wouldn't even need to fork cygpath for getting there.

Does https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html help?


Corinna

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